What a bizarre couple of\nraces. Before at the start of the first race there was a gentle 6-8mph wind\nwhich was from the south and was a challenge for Richard S to set a good beat\nbut he managed it by setting A up towards 2, (there was no wind at 2) then 9,\n5, 7 and using 6 as the last mark. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pursuit Race <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There were 12 starters and at\nthe end of the first lap the early starters were still well up the leaderboard\nwith Chris H (Comet) in front followed by Dave & Ann (Leader), Rhys (4.7)\nand Steve S (Solo) and Mike C & crew (Leader). Everyone sailed serenely around\nuntil about 5 min before the end of the race when the wind suddenly went from\n8mph to about 20 -25 mph. It caught a lot out as they were heading down wind at\nthe time and did not see it coming. There were multiple capsizes and Lottie\n(Laser) and Mike C retired as a result. The final order at the gun was \u2013 <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup> Chris H\n(Comet); 2nd<\/sup> Dave & Ann (Leader); 3rd<\/sup> Mike Tr\n(Laser); 4th<\/sup> Steve S (Solo); 5th<\/sup> Ellen & Newton (RS 200);\n6th<\/sup> Karen (Laser)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Handicap Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Richard S tweaked the course\nslightly by using 4 instead of A and the wind eased a touch for this second\nrace. Karen, Lottie and Mike C decided they had had enough and opted to get dry\nas the forecast rain came tumbling down. Apart from the rain all was well until\nthe start of the third lap when the wind just steadily dropped to pretty much\nnothing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Newton & Ellen were first\nback through the line at the end of the first lap not far ahead of Mike Tr and\nJames (Laser). Steve S came along 30 seconds later and then after another 30\nseconds a group consisting of Dave & Ann (Leader), Adrian (Vago s\/h), Rhys\n(4.7) and Rick (Laser) crossed fairly close together. Chris H retired on this\nlap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the second lap there was no\nchange in the order of the first four, but Rick moved up three places to 5th<\/sup>\nand then the wind disappeared! <\/p>\n\n\n\n It took almost as long to complete the third lap as the first two laps! Other than the retirements of Steve and Rhys (this time because of a lack of wind), the only positional change was Adrian passing Dave & Ann. The\nfinal order on the water was \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup> Ellen & Newton; 2nd<\/sup> Mike Tr; 3rd<\/sup> James; 4th<\/sup> Rick; 5th<\/sup> Adrian; 6th<\/sup> Dave & Ann <\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time Adrian and\nDave & Ann swap places and everyone else keeps their position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to Richard S and the\nOOD Team of Ben E, Jess B, Leon S, Sarah C and Will S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What a bizarre couple of races. Before at the start of the first race there was a gentle 6-8mph wind which was from the south and was a challenge for Richard S to set a good beat but he managed it by setting A up towards 2, (there was no wind at 2) then 9, 5, 7 and using 6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-nZ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1490,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}